The auto-layout deck builder you buy once.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Beautiful.ai, at $12-40/mo — roughly $480 a year, every year. Slidecraft does the job for a one-time $29 — running locally on your own machine.
Title, bullet list, two-column, image+text, chart, quote and agenda layouts recompute font sizes, columns and spacing automatically so nothing overflows or overlaps.
For freelancers, content-aware smart layouts pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
5 palettes plus font pairings apply globally and carry zero geometry, so swapping a theme never breaks a layout.
For freelancers, theme system pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
Bar, line and pie charts from typed-in data render as vectors in the editor and PDF, and export as real editable PowerPoint charts, not screenshots.
For freelancers, native charts pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
One payment of $29 gets the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/presentation-builder-mvp and run it yourself for free.
Runs 100% local as a desktop app: slide thumbnails, live inspector, no accounts, no cloud, no telemetry.
Type your content, let the layouts reflow, then export real editable .pptx or a 16:9 .pdf.
Slidecraft is $29, once. Beautiful.ai at $12-40/mo — roughly $480 a year, every year. Slidecraft costs less than one month of Beautiful.ai's Pro plan, then never asks again.
Slidecraft costs less than one month of Beautiful.ai's Pro plan, then never asks again. Slidecraft costs $29 once; Beautiful.ai charges $12-40/mo — about $480 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes, Slidecraft is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/presentation-builder-mvp. The $29 buys the packaged Windows 1-click installer and updates; building from source is free.
On your disk as plain-JSON .slidecraft files. Nothing is uploaded, no cloud, no telemetry.